The numbered plates are hand-colored and signed: Prévost fecit; Defehrt fec

Collation: t. 1: [4], xxviij, 556 p., [1] unnumbered folded leaf of plates (table), and plates numbered I-X; t. 2: [4], 744 p., and plates numbered XI-XXII

Head- and tail-pieces; title-page vignettes (vignette on t. 1 signed: Papillon inv. et sculp. ... 1732)

Includes indexes

Bibliography: t. 1, p. xxij-xxvi

Hagen, H.A. Bib. entomologica

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

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SCNHRB copy (t. 1, 39088013955141; t. 2, 39088013955232) has ms. pencil annotation on t.p. of t. 1: purchased H.S. Barber, mus. insects. With barely visible Smithsonian Institution National Museum stamp, and accession number 236275 in ink on both title pages

SCNHRB copy of t. 1 has p. 529-536 misbound between pages 552 and 553; t. 2 has the final 7 plates misbound in the following order: XVI, XXI, XXII, XX, XVII, XVIII, XIX

SCNHRB copy has brick-red morocco quarter-leather bindings with blue paper boards, blind-tooled spines, marbled endpapers (t. 1) or light green endpapers (t. 2), and red sprinkled edges

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